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October 12, 2012

San Juan Nepomuceno Band Performs at Concert at the Park

For its second
offering this October, Concert at the Park presents the pride of
Malibay, Pasay City - the San Juan Nepomuceno Band, under the music
direction of Prof. Hermie Ranera, this Sunday, October 14, 2012,
starting at 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon. Ms. Minette Padilla is
program host.

Concert
at the Park is a regular public service project of the Department of
Tourism, under Secretary Ramon Jimenez, Jr., the National Parks
Development Committee (NPDC), with Ms. Juliet H. Villegas as Executive
Director, the People’s Television Four and for this week, in partnership
with Gantimpala Theater Foundation. NPDC Chief of Cultural & Public
Affairs Mr. Freddie A. Edos is the Executive in Charge of the project.
Gie V. Arnold writes the script.

In 1965, a group of
musician-friends, namely, Pio Velez, Flaviano Francisco, Guillermo
Hilario, Hermin Jacinto, Daniel Jacinto, Vic Jacinto, Pacifico Ranera
and other young musicians living in Malibay, Pasay and Bangkal, Makati,
got together, put up a band and named it, San Juan Nepomuceno Band, in
honor of the patron saint of Barrio Malibay. Elected Manager was
Evaristo Galang. The band first came under the leadership of Hermin
Jacinto, with Sgt. Telesforo Sapida of the Philippine Army as its first
director. The other music directors were Narciso Gabriel and Jose Bedana
of the Philippine Army Band and CPO Alberto Geronimo of the Philippine
Navy Band. At present, Prof. Hermie Ranera is the music director,
conductor and official arranger of the band, which was the back-to-back
Champion of the Banda Extravaganza for two consecutive years, from 1990
to 1991, winning all the “parada”, “serenata” and solo categories.

The
San Juan Nepomuceno Band will take us back to the time when band music
in the country is at its peak; when the Philippines was still a young
nation. Philippine music, specially arranged by noted Filipino composers
such as National Artists Antonino Buenaventura, Felipe Padilla de Leon
and Maestro Lucio D. San Pedro will also be played.

Come and
visit the Rizal Park this Sunday and cap your park visit with an
entertaining program at the Rizal Park Open-Air Auditorium after which
you can watch the famous musical dancing fountain at the Central Lagoon,
right outside of the Auditorium. Admission to Concert at the Park is
free of charge. The public is cordially invited.